From the jump, the Rays just didn’t have it tonight.
In the bottom of the first, Trey Mancini roped a triple to right field with two outs to plate two Halos. 2-0 Anaheim before you got a chance to sit down with your popcorn.
Again with two outs, the Angels got off the hook with a seeing-eye single from Nick Madrigal plated another to tack on another run, and Logan O’Hoppe singles to plate Madrigal, and it’s 4-0 Angels.
Shane McClanahan struck out seven, but allowed eight hits and walked one.
In the top of the fifth, Jonathan Aranda struck again, providing Tampa bay with a crooked number of the single variety to cut the deficit in half.
In the eighth, Chandler Simpson defied gravity with a home run-robbing catch in his first start in center field this season.
In the ninth, the Rays threatened with another Aranda RBI single. Junior Caminero walks to load the bases,
Cedric Mullins pinch hits for Ryan Vilade, and that was all she wrote. Mullins would strike out swinging, stranding the tying run at third base.
We do it again from Angel Stadium on Saturday at 10:07 PM EST, with Griffin Jax and Rafael Soriano as the probable pitchers.
